Dr. Giles is an Associate Professor at the Department of History. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge in 1975. He is currently a Senior Vice-President of the Friends of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., and an Honorary Consultant of the Holocaust Educational Foundation. His research focuses on the Holocaust, and in 2000-2001 he was the Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.   He has always been closely involved in UF study abroad programs, and was the founder in 1983 of the summer history program for UF students at Cambridge University in England every Summer Term B, now approaching its 25th anniversary.  More recently he has inaugurated an annual Thanksgiving mini-course in Munich with the title "The Sites of German History in Europe," currently in its third year.   And starting in 2008, responding to student demand, he is planning a Holocaust course in Poland in Summer Term A, visiting some of the sites of the death camps.  In 2006 he won a CLAS International Educator of the Year Award.